VALDOSTA — PSST! It’s back.

At least, the actors and crew are.

Rehearsals started this week for the 2017 season of Peach State Summer Theatre.

Tech crew began work on lighting, sets and costumes last week. 

Actors arrived during the weekend and rehearsals for the first show began this week.

The three 2017 shows are “Shrek,” “Forever Plaid” and “My Fair Lady,” said H. Duke Guthrie, PSST! managing director.

Box office is already open for regular season holders and is exclusively open for them through Wednesday, May 17. Box office opens for the general public Thursday, May 18.

Tickets may be purchased by visiting www.valdosta.edu/psst, or calling (229) 259-7770.

The shows offer a wide array of choices, according to PSST!

“Shrek” is a live, musical version of the beloved animated DreamsWorks movie. Guthrie said the show should be suitable for all audiences. It features a song or two from the movie soundtrack but mostly incorporates songs written and composed specifically for the stage version. Jacque Wheeler, PSST! artistic director, is scheduled to direct.

“Forever Plaid” is playwright Stuart Ross’ love letter to the harmony groups, such as the Four Aces, etc., of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The conceit here is the Plaids, a fictional singing group, die in a car wreck on the way to see the Beatles’ American debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The key to a successful production of “Forever Plaid” is remembering the show’s heart at the center of the music and humor, Guthrie said. Guthrie is scheduled to direct.

The Plaids return from the great beyond to perform the show of a lifetime … or afterlifetime. Guthrie said PSST! will find four great male singers to perform songs such as “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “Undecided,” “Gotta Be This or That,” “Moments to Remember,” “Crazy ‘Bout Ya, Baby,” “No, Not Much,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Chain Gang,” “Perfidia,” “Cry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Lady of Spain,” “Scotland the Brave,” “Shangri-La,” “Rags to Riches” and “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.”

“My Fair Lady” is the successful combination of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” wrapped in a Lerner-Loewe Broadway musical. Professor Henry Higgins believes he can transform anyone into a lady. His social experiment introduces him to Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, who ends up stealing Higgins’ heart. Randy Wheeler, a longtime PSST show director, is scheduled to direct.

The first show opens early June 2017, with the next two shows opening in following weeks, running in rotating repertoire through mid July.